Question group
Analytical and research methods
Questions in this group:
Analytical and research methods
Statistical techniques: to better measure effects within our research and the analysis of our data; learning from new methodologies to analyse and interrogate administrative data, particularly missing information, low frequencies and counts, and approaches to data linkage.
Ministry of Justice, 2020
Analytical and research methods
Social research methods, particularly qualitative research and ethnographic methods: to give a richer understanding of the experience of, and interactions with, the justice system; advances in ‘big qual’ methodology; quantitative social research methods such as sequence and cluster analysis.
Ministry of Justice, 2020
Analytical and research methods
Experimentation, implementation, and evaluation: including exploring, developing and testing new ideas or methods using innovative pre-experimental and evaluation approaches and randomised control trials; how to measure the impact and effectiveness of public service interventions in a human-centric manner; advances in pre- and quasi-experimental methods; theory-based evaluation and value-for-money evaluation.
Ministry of Justice, 2020
Analytical and research methods
Data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence: algorithmic decision-support and decision-making, to inform the real-time personalisation of services and interventions; natural language processing, feature extraction and analysis of complex textual data; artificial intelligence transparency, accountability, fairness, and ‘explainability’.
Ministry of Justice, 2020
Analytical and research methods
Simulation, agent-based modelling and hybrid modelling methods: optimisation methods; forecasting techniques; resource modelling, and performance frameworks, to inform and optimise the running and delivery of the MoJ estate and operations, to ensure they run effectively, efficiently, and productively.
Ministry of Justice, 2020
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